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Musk’s Neuralink kills 1,500 animals in research rush, faces Federal probe
The medical device company is facing staff backlash over animal testing and complaints that Elon Musk is pressuring them to accelerate experiments.
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The incremental normalization of police murderbots probably needs more attention
The city of San Francisco has voted to legalize the use of killbots in specific emergency situations like active shooters and suicide bombers, with high-ranking officers making the call as to whether their use is warranted.
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An image of hope: Abahlali baseMjondolo’s fight for dignity and land, 17 years on
On November 17, a photo exhibition titled ‘Socialism or Death: Abahlali baseMjondolo on the Frontlines of Struggle’ opened at The Forge in Johannesburg. The work displayed chronicles the years-long struggle of South Africa’s shack dwellers movement to secure land and housing for the urban poor.
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Cops are asking to kill people with robots. What could go wrong?
The U.S. military has been killing people with robots for decades now, and the nation’s local police now seem eager to get in on the action.
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“Russia has lost the war”
The intellectual laziness of many information professionals, who limit themselves to reproducing the propaganda reports of Zelensky’s government, if not submitting to the doxa dictated by the media management bodies, as well as the censorship imposed by the authorities and pressure groups, prevent a more impartial knowledge of the real situation of the conflict.
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The crisis of Western imperialism and the imperative of war and repression
The world as we know it must change. Humanity cannot survive under imperialist and capitalist structures.
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The narrative of sham elections
Every mainstream media outlet described the referenda in September in the Donetsk, Lugansk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR), Kherson Region and part of Zaporozhye as a “sham” and therefore “rigged.”
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Should we be worried about eight billion people?
Our immediate crisis is caused by a system that encourages endless growth, exploitation, waste and energy use.
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Alexei Kudrin starts his run to succeed President Vladimir Putin
There were only two ways for Alexei Kudrin to become the president of Russia that he and the U.S. government have always wanted.
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U.S. commits to reignite space race during new Cold War vs. China, Russia
Artemis I is a dry run for the return to the moon, a test of the new Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule that will bring astronauts into lunar orbit on Artemis II and onto the surface on Artemis III.
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Zero-Covid and the China protests: look at the bigger picture
Ever since the world’s first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China.
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Book Review: ‘Before Crips’ dismantles dominant narrative on gangs
For the past several decades, the media has severely manipulated the question of gangs and their socio-economic origins. John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani’s new book, “Before Crips: Fussin’, Cussin’, and Discussin’” among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs, exposes the mainstream stigmas and half-truths surrounding gangs.
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Ron DeSantis’s Military Secrets: Torture & War Crimes
In this Eyes Left/Empire Files exclusive, Mike Prysner sheds light on the shadowy military career of Ron DeSantis.
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Are you ok? The lives of young trans Texans
In Jesse Friedin’s photos, viewers glimpse the bravery of transgender youth and the power of unconditional family support.
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Towards a just transition: breaking with the existing order
The action proposed by world leaders, their advisors, and corporate lobbyists at the climate talks (COP27) in Egypt are neoliberal, market-based, and focused on preserving a racist and capitalist global order. Introducing a collection of papers on the climate emergency in North Africa, Hamza Hamouchene, Ouafa Haddioui and Katie Sandwell denounce mainstream and top-down solutions for an environmental crisis engulfing the region, and continent.
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The Communist Party is the only force capable of challenging ultra-nationalism in Israeli society
The collapse of the “Zionist Left” during Israel’s most recent elections leaves Hadash and the Communist Party as the only force able to stand against the rise of ultra-nationalism.
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U.S. media searched for crisis at China Party Congress
For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring.
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Stability in a destabilized region
The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro and Inacio Lula da Silva this year in Colombia and Brazil have raised hopes for a new strong impulse towards the full emancipation of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Haunted by the ghost of “Marbury v. Madison:” Judicial review and abolishing the Supreme Court
In 2022, after a handful of unelected judges serving lifetime terms in the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated the hard-won and overwhelmingly popular right to abortion, masses of people took to the streets to defend this democratic right to bodily autonomy.
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University of California workers launch largest academic strike in U.S. history
Workers in the U.S. continue to make waves in historically unorganized sectors such as academia and service.